... God has given us the gift of time so that we may
turn to God (A. Calivas). How do we use that time?
Every day is dedicated, saints and feasts
The day is divided into 8 parts so we can pause and
call upon God.
Seasons for preparing for God’s actions in history.
We mark passages in life, from birth to ...

... Am I tolerating sin or false teaching in my life or in my church? Am I obedient to judge
immorality in “The Church”? Have I properly confronted them in love with the Word of God in
the way Matthew 18 directs?
Do I bear the name "Christian" in a worthy manner? Is it true, or am I only a hearer, not a ...

... Religion is as much a human universal as language
Talcott Parsons
To live at all is miracle enough.
Mervyn Peake
Some piously record “In the beginning God”, but I say “in the beginning hydrogen”.
Harlow Shapley
You must abandon reason, know nothing of it, annihilate it completely, or you will never ...

... and ready to be a witness for God and his Son Jesus. The Holy Spirit is our
commander in this spiritual battle, and when you enlist in God’s service the
Holy Spirit will take his place within you: 1Corinthians 3:16. He will lead and
guide you in everything that you will encounter in this life. The B ...

... and desperately hanging on.
Behold the beauty and splendor of God’s people.
We believe God’s steadfast love is better than life,
so let our lips praise God as long as we live.
We also often doubt God’s love.
We often doubt that God will really provide when it
...

... Our Statement of Faith
We believe there is one God, eternally existent in the Persons of Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. He is infinite in wisdom and power and is completely sovereign over all creation.
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, infallible and only Word of God. The
Bible is th ...

... God. Grace gives us all of the acceptance, status,
love and affection that the Father has for Jesus to
us. We become as valued to God as Jesus. This is
permanent and will not change based upon
anything we do.
...

... storm and thunder (meant to instill fear)
God keeps the storm from rushing
upon you
The wrath of God is like great waters dammed;
His power, over time, builds
God may temporarily withhold his vengeance,
but your guilt builds greater and greater
...

... again to bring me new life. I ask to receive your forgiveness and grace and choose to follow
You as my Lord and Savior. In Jesus name, Amen.”
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. —Roman ...

... When the Word says Abraham did not consider his own body, it doesn’t mean he
denied his own body. It means that he did not consider the deadness of his own
body, or his wife’s body, as the final answer. He saw what God saw more vividly
than he saw what the devil saw. The devil is a liar. Abraham con ...

... What do Muslims believe anyway?
Muslim is the name for people who adhere to the Islamic faith. You can’t listen to the news or read a
newspaper without some mention of Islam, because it is the major religion in most of the countries of the
Middle East. Here is a list of some of the similarities and ...

... Attainment of the virtues of goodness, love, mercy
and justice requires discipline, an askesis, of
continued repentance and purification of the life, the
heart and the soul
All men are made in God’s image, but to be in His
likeness is granted only to those who through great
love have brought their o ...

... But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse,
and from his roots a bud shall blossom.
The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him:
a spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
A spirit of counsel and of strength,
a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD,
and his delight shall be the fear of the ...

... LISTEN TO PAUL in Romans 1:18-32:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men, who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness, 19 because what may be
known of God is manifest in them, for God
has shown it to them. 20 For since the
creation of the world ...

... 1. ***Besides the term A.D., what other term might historians use to
classify years that occurred during the life of OR after the death
of Jesus Christ?
2. ***What are the four characteristics that all civilizations share?
3. List TWO ways that Paleolithic people were different from
Neolithic people ...

... incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness
to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift
of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we
are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do go ...

... • Since the fall of Adam &
Eve, every person is enslaved
to sin.
• People are not by nature
inclined to love God but
rather to serve their own
interests and to reject the rule
of God.
• Thus, all people are morally
unable to choose on their
own to follow God because
of their inherent natures.
...

... Prayer: To connect to God, searching for His guidance and discerning His Will. We will not be anxious
about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present our requests to God.
...

... insight: “All along, I thought I was helping him, while in reality, he was holding me.”
Probatio 3
A third element for me must always be total fascination with God’s disclosure in Jesus. It is
not only the teaching of Jesus—penetrating, arresting even to the non-believer—but the very
person of Jesus ...

... a while,
make
you perfect,
crosshave
but also
the gift of
faith in that
atonement,
created in
the heart
of the believer
the Holy
Spirit.
stablish,
strengthen,
settlebyyou.
To him
be glory
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1Peter 5:10 – 11
...

... “Therefore, my beloved, as you have
always obeyed, so now, not only as in my
presence but much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling, for it is God who works in you,
both to will and to work for his good
pleasure.”
Philippians 2:12-13 ESV
...

God the Father

God the Father is a title given to God in various religions. In Judaism, God is described as ""Father"" as he is seen as the absolute one, indivisible and incomparable, transcendent, immanent, and non-corporeal God of creation and history. The God in Judaism is the giver of the shabbath and the torahs—written, oral, mystical—to his chosen people. However, in Judaism the use of the ""Father"" title is generally a metaphor and is one of many titles by which Jews speak of and to God.In trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the first person of the Trinity, followed by the second person God the Son (Jesus Christ) and the third person God the Holy Spirit. Since the second century, Christian creeds included affirmation of belief in ""God the Father (Almighty)"", primarily as his capacity as ""Father and creator of the universe"". Yet, in Christianity the concept of God as the father of Jesus Christ goes metaphysically further than the concept of God as the Creator and father of all people, as indicated in the Apostle's Creed where the expression of belief in the ""Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth"" is immediately, but separately followed by in ""Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord"", thus expressing both senses of fatherhood.The Islamic view of God sees God as the unique creator of the universe and as the life-giver, and although traditional Islamic teaching does not formally prohibit using the term ""Father"" in reference to God, it does not propagate or encourage it.